Alice Springs fuel grid 'too unstable' with over 13% solar power
Alice Springs' electricity grid is reportedly becoming more unstable after about a quarter of Alice Springs homes installed solar panels and 13 percent of the town's energy now comes from solar. Alice Springs Future Grid director Lyndon Freason admitted that it's becoming "increasingly difficult to efficiently absorb more renewables in the middle of the day when the sun is shining, without actually causing instability in the existing generation."
Aussies mount massive rallies to counter dystopian Digital ID
https://cairnsnews.org/2024/05/05/digital-id-rally-in-cairns-draws-250-saying-enough-is-enough/
https://cairnsnews.org/2024/05/07/digital-id-rally-brisbane-sees-more-people-awakening/
Massive rallies across Australia have been mounted to protest Labor's controversial Digital ID dystopia. Recent rallies included Cairns and Brisbane, whose organizers spoke up about the looming social catastrophe and total government control of the population.
Albanese rabbits on about ‘social license' amid crackdown on social media
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has lectured social media platforms about a so-called "social license" as something that they are granted to operate, urging them to "start to understand their social responsibility." This comes as the Labor government stepped up its crackdown order on social media and pushed for the use of artificial intelligence using online age verification via digital IDs.
6 in 10 Aussies want businesses to stay away from politics
A new survey showed the majority of Australians want companies to veer away from politics. The report stated that while 96 percent of Australians believed it was important for brands to do some form of good in the world today, 61 percent did not support companies taking a position on social and political issues.
WW3 WATCH: Chinese Communist Party accuses Australia of 'risky' helicopter manoeuvre in Yellow Sea
The Chinese Communist Party has claimed that Australia acted "provocatively" and "deliberately approached China's airspace" in the Yellow Sea. China warned that Australia should "immediately stop the provocations and hypes to prevent misunderstanding and miscalculation."
Coalition claims Labor 'scrambling to fix a mess of their own making' as police detain 5 asylum seekers
Amid concerns about community safety, The Coalition claims Labor is "scrambling to fix a mess of their own making" and must sack the Immigration Minister. This comment comes after a group of asylum seekers had been detained while trying to illegally enter Australia on a dinghy. The group of five, reportedly from West Africa, are being held on Saibai Island in Far North Queensland.
AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vax discontinued; company faces at least 51 lawsuits
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca's problematic COVID-19 vaccine Vaxzevria, which is linked to serious blood-clotting illnesses, will be discontinued globally. The company is currently facing 51 lawsuits from families who claimed having experienced irreversible side effects.
Institute of Public Affairs believes multiculturism 'dividing society'
Multiculturism is dividing Australia right now and is very different from multiculturism in the post-World War II era, according to Institute of Public Affairs Executive Director Daniel Wild. Responding to a survey that found that Melbourne had the lowest sense of belonging to Australia, Wild said: "It worked well for many decades after World War II. It's not working today. We are a divided society, we can see that on our streets, and our university campuses."
WW3 WATCH: Beijing 'pre-positioning virtual bombs' on Australia's critical infrastructure
China is already "pre-positioning virtual bombs" on Australia's critical infrastructure, according to Sky News contributor Chris Uhlmann, citing a recent incident where a Chinese fighter jet dropped flares in front of an Australian Navy helicopter in international waters off the coast of South Korea. Uhlmann said these are not the actions of a "friendly nation" and are instead "actions of a hostile nation."
Reserve Bank chief admits companies can't survive rising rates
Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Michele Bullock admitted that Australian businesses couldn't cope with interest rates rising from a record-low of 0.1 per cent. She said corporate insolvencies are at a decade-high during a building crisis because many firms couldn't cope with interest rates.
Albanese using violence against women as 'smokescreen' to censor internet
Commentator Stephen Reason has pointed out that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is using the government's campaign to end violence against women as a "smokescreen" to impose "age-assurance technologies" to surveil and censor and to remove all anonymity from the internet. Reason believes there is no current "epidemic of gender violence against women" in Australia, and there is no objectively verifiable "national crisis" of "male domestic violence" and certainly no "national emergency."
COVID boosters fuel seizure, myocarditis in kids as young as 2 to 4
A new study found that COVID-19 vaccine boosters have been fueling myocarditis, pericarditis, and febrile seizure cases among children aged 2 to 4 or 5 years. Myocarditis is the inflammation of the heart muscle while Febrile seizures are convulsions that can happen when a young child has a fever above 100.4°F.
Australia's digital ID pilot program for online age verification undermined by data leak disaster
https://reclaimthenet.org/australias-digital-id-push-is-undermined-by-data-leak-disaster
The Australian government's move to roll out a pilot program testing an online age verification system digital ID system was undermined by a privacy scandal regarding a legal requirement for bars and clubs. In New South Wales (NSW), clubs are required to legally collate personal information from patrons upon entry, raising issues on privacy and data risks regarding age verification as it has ended up getting leaked.
Pharma giants reportedly paid $33 million to Aussie doctors to promote their products
A bombshell report found that pharmaceutical companies paid Australian doctors more than $33 million (US$21.9 million) over three years to promote their products. Between November 2019 and October 2022, which covers the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Medical Journal of Australia reported that more than 6,500 doctors across the country received at least one payment from a pharmaceutical company.
WHO makes last push as final negotiations on pandemic accord set on May 10
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-nw-avian-influenza-next-covid/
The globalist World Health Organization rallied countries anew to back up the global pandemic accord as finalize negotiations are slated on May 10. Both Australia and the United States have expressed criticisms on the accord, arguing that it cedes too much power to a UN agency.
Qantas pays 'largest penalty ever' over claim it illegally sold thousands of tickets for flights that were already cancelled
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https://finance.yahoo.com/video/australias-qantas-agrees-79-million-055119103.html
Australian airline Qantas Airways will pay a penalty worth $79 million after it reportedly illegally sold thousands of tickets for flights that had already been cancelled. Qantas will split $13 million between more than 86,000 customers who booked tickets on the so-called "ghost flights" and pay a $66 million fine instead of defending the lawsuit that it had previously promised to fight.
WW3 WATCH: Pentagon wants Australia, Japan, PH to join new security alliance to replace QUAD
https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-05-06-us-anti-china-squad-japan-philippines-australia.html
https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/move-over-quad-the-new-squad-has-landed/
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed that Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and the US are looking to form a new "Squad" defence partnership that would replace the QUAD alliance, a security pact comprising India, Australia, the US and Japan. The US Pentagon made the pitch following as tensions rise in the South China Sea and the threat of a war over Taiwan becomes more palpable.
Russian hacker behind 18% of Australia's recent ransomware incidents
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/australian-government-sanctions-russian-hacker-5645752
LockBit, an international ransomware group based in Russia, was reportedly behind 18 percent of reported Australian ransomware incidents in 2022-23 and targeted 119 people in Australia. Its leader, Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, supplied a global network of hackers with the tools and infrastructure to carry out online attacks.
Top economist warns Australia 'on the cusp of genuine recession'
Economist Stephen Koukoulas, previously an economics advisor to the Prime Minister's Department, said Australia is "on the cusp of not just a per capita recession, but a genuine recession." He said Australia's "miserable" retail sales will play a significant role in the months ahead and has called for the RBA to lower rates as soon as possible due to the "sluggish" economy.
Dutton slams Albanese for not having 'the backbone to stand up to people smugglers'
Opposition leader Peter Dutton took a swipe at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for not having the "backbone to stand up to people smugglers or our adversaries or others who would seek to do us harm. Responding to the detention of a group that was caught in mangroves attempting to enter Australia illegally, Dutton said: "The Prime Minister should be showing leadership, and he's not."
NSW debt collection body broke law using automated bank withdrawals
A new report found that the New South Wales government's debt collection agency broke the law by using an automated system to withdraw money from millions of bank accounts to claw back unpaid fines. The report claims Revenue NSW's use of Artificial Intelligence to generate garnishee orders broke the law from its introduction in 2016 until 2019, and that it was "wrong" until March 2022.